Free public transit is one of those topics that really gets the people who despise the poor and want them to suffer, somewhere out of view please, to tell on themselves.
I advocated for it in a newspaper interview and for quite some time people at events who seemed on the surface fairly decent would, unprompted, let me know it's bad when people with nothing have a way to get around and places to be warm in winter or cool in summer, to sit, to put down their bags, to talk and laugh, to eat, etc.